San Antonio Spurs | The Official Site of the San Antonio Spurs Inspiring The Next Generation January 13, 2017 Fifteen Sam Houston High School seniors are the first graduating class of the Spurs’ InspireU program, a workplace mentoring program facilitated through Big Brothers Big Sisters, the San Antonio Chamber of Commerce and the mayor’s office. Since 2011, SS&E employees have had regular meetings with their matched student and watched them grow up. Building The Future In Austin January 6, 2016 In the 10th season of the San Antonio Spurs’ ownership of the Austin Spurs, the organization’s use of the D-League reached another milestone. For the first time in franchise history, the majority of players on the Spurs roster – 8 out of 14 – have D-League experience.

Spurs' Aldridge won't play for US Olympic basketball team Spurs' Aldridge won't play for US Olympic basketball team Pin it Share OKLAHOMA CITY, OK - MAY 12: LaMarcus Aldridge #12 of the San Antonio Spurs shoots the ball against the Oklahoma City Thunder in Game Six of Western Conference Quarterfinals of the 2016 NBA Playoffs on May 12, 2016 Chesapeake Energy Arena in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma. (Photo by Layne Murdoch/NBAE via Getty Images) More SAN ANTONIO (AP) -- San Antonio forward LaMarcus Aldridge has pulled out of consideration for the U.S. Olympic basketball team after a finger injury late in the season. The Spurs confirmed Aldridge's decision Monday, with general manager RC Buford saying in a statement that they ''always support a player's decision when it comes to participation with his national team.'' Aldridge wasn't considered a likely choice for the 12-man roster, given that he had never played for the Americans and withdrawn from consideration on multiple occasions previously. But he was given another chance when he was chosen for the roster pool of 31 finalists.

His decision, first reported by ESPN.com, comes on the day Stephen Curry also withdrew after his recent knee and ankle injuries. Reblog San Antonio Spurs may be doing something right by drafting international athletes - ESPN The Magazine 29°25'36.39" N, 98°26'14.34" AT&T Center, San Antonio, 2013 "Stone cold" is a distinctly American term. So you could forgive Tiago Splitter 's question. The San Antonio Spurs are in a scouting meeting, moments before tip-off against the Oklahoma City Thunder . Assistant coach Brett Brown is explaining a defensive alignment -- a "red," where two Spurs defenders switch off a pick. To emphasize his point, Brown declares it a stone-cold certainty the Spurs will face that situation in tonight's game. Nine of the Spurs' 15 players this year were raised and trained outside of the United States -- an NBA record. Cultural and linguistic confusion happens often on this team. Enter Splitter, a 6'11", 28-year-old center from Brazil by way of Spain, who this season was the latest to consummate the transition from overseas superstar to selfless Spur.

Splitter raises his hand, narrows his brow sharp as a rooftop and says, "What is stone cold?" The team laughs. Head coach Gregg Popovich laughs. Splitter laughs too -- but he still needs an answer. So Brown explains what he meant. Then Splitter turns to Patty Mills , a guard from Australia, and whispers, "Stone cold isn't in Rosetta Stone." 50°56'15.11" N, 6°57'37.00" E Cologne, West Germany, 1988 As coaches go, Popovich is a pretty worldly guy. He majored in Soviet studies at the Air Force Academy. He speaks Russian and Serbian. He played on military basketball teams during his stint in the armed forces, traveling Eastern Europe in the '70s. Even then, he knew that the foreign guys were a mostly untapped wealth of talent. So in the late '80s, as an assistant coach with the Spurs, Pop traveled to see the European championships in Cologne. The only other NBA coach there was Don Nelson.

Pop knew the stigmas against foreign players: They wouldn't play defense, they wouldn't socialize, they wouldn't learn English, they weren't strong dribblers, they couldn't handle a reduced role, they were soft. "I thought that was really ignorant," Pop says now. "I couldn't believe that it was a pool that wasn't being used." Decades later, with Pop's mentality and some luck, the core of the Spurs -- Tim Duncan , Tony Parker and Manu Ginobili , international players all -- have helped produce the most consistent winner in the four major sports over the past 15 years, victorious 70.3 percent of the time during that stretch. They've reached the NBA Finals five times and, as of June 10, were three wins away from a fifth championship. And through it all, as Pop's international strategy has become the strategy in the NBA -- seven GMs and five head coaches this past season grew from the Spurs' tree -- it's always been framed in Moneyball terms: Go somewhere other teams aren't, find talent nobody else finds.

But to spend time inside the Spurs organization today is to uncover another interpretation of the Spurs dynasty: that as America's youth basketball pipeline has produced a type of player that Pop has no interest in coaching, he has found an advantage not only in targeting international players but in avoiding domestic ones. 40°40'51.09" N, 73°47'30.88" W South Jamaica, N.Y., 2013 The anti-Spurs are playing in a stuffy gym in Queens. New Jersey's Playaz Basketball Club and the New York City Jayhawks -- two AAU teams, the former among the nation's premiere squads and the latter a relative upstart -- are facing off in the IS8 Tournament. It's a small showcase, during the down months when college coaches aren't allowed to attend games, so missing is the usual swirling circus of middlemen and power brokers and recruiters and other fishy sycophants who are as ubiquitous at tournaments as the Swoosh. The larger summer events are, as one college coach says, "sick.

You see coaches, street agents, pedophiles, guys who want to hang around the players because of money or ego." Youth basketball's beauties and alarms, depending how you look at it, are evident from the opening tip. On an early possession, one of the Jayhawks spins, dribbles, loses and regains balance -- holding the ball for what seems like an eternity -- before drawing contact and hitting a layup. "And one!" he yells. A few possessions later, one of the Playaz dribbles up the floor, barreling through every Jayhawk like a fullback as his teammates stand alone, and throws up a wild layup, nowhere close. 29°31'35.87" N, 98°35'35.65" W 1 Spurs Lane, San Antonio, 2013 Representatives from Brazil, Argentina, France and the U.S. Virgin Islands -- just four of the Spurs NBA-record nine international players. Darren Carroll Near a mural in his office, Spurs general manager R.C. Buford has just finished reading an article. The mural is an action shot of a Spurs game, but it's really of an era and a mentality frozen in time.

Parker's arms are extended, following through after a pass to Ginobili, who's shooting a layup. Duncan is under the glass, not leaping to dunk a potential Ginobili miss but boxing out. Three future Hall of Famers, including one whom many fans -- and not just in San Antonio -- consider the premier player of his era, all playing hero-agnostic basketball. The article that Buford has finished, printed from ESPN.com, sits on his desk. Its headline: "The Entitlement Culture of Elite HS Hoops." In it, recruiting analyst Dave Telep writes about not only witnessing AAU players complain about the food at a Ritz in California during a tournament but also what he calls the slow and steady crumble of American grassroots basketball: loafing, lousy fundamentals, a pervasive disinterest from players in showcasing anything but themselves. Buford had lived much of what he read. With two sons who recently played college basketball and rose through the AAU scene, Buford has had a floor seat to the yawning divide in how the game is taught in America and overseas. In AAU, anyone who pays a $16 fee and finishes a background check and an online clinic can coach.

In the FIBA club system in Europe, although requirements vary from country to country, coaches must earn various licenses, which often require them to complete intensive training, covering everything from X's and O's to nutrition. The U.S. has the NCAA serving as a conflicted arbiter of both the players' time and money; there is no pretense of amateurism overseas, and for better or worse, practices often last hours longer than our regulated college ones. The Spurs, of course, are not in the business of worrying about the demands on a student-athlete's time and saw it as a plus that guys like Ginobili and Parker had been playing club basketball since they were teenagers, schooled by accredited coaches, the 10,000-hour rule brought to the hardwood. Consider Pop's brutal assessment that foreign players are "fundamentally harder working than most American kids," and it's no wonder the Spurs want to avoid the fate of so many NBA teams, which are, as Buford says, "the end of the road for the developmental habits that are built in the less-structured environment in the U.S." The way the Spurs see it, though, the biggest divide isn't structural but cultural.

Something has happened to basketball in the country that invented it, as well-documented as it as irrevocable, driven by money and fame and a generation of players who've learned from watching sharks succeed by imposing their will upon the game rather than by allowing it to come to them. It used to be that a team needed a transcendent talent to execute a star system; now, it needs a transcendent talent -- LeBron James or Duncan -- to show that it's permissible to be unselfish. Consider that the U.S. has won only two of the major world junior championships in the past 26 years -- not even in 2007, with Stephen Curry and Michael Beasley on the roster -- and the root rot of the U.S. system is all the more clear. "That's a statement about where we are," Buford says. "When we put our best players together, we aren't playing well." Parker trained at the National Institute of Sport and Physical Education in Paris. But it was summer visits with his paternal grandparents in Chicago during Michael Jordans reign that affirmed his love for the game.

Christian Liewig/TempSport/Corbis Most of the foreign players not only have more experience playing basketball but more experience playing an unselfish style, with lots of passing and motion and screens, as messy as it is pure. As Spurs director of basketball operations Sean Marks , a New Zealander who played for San Antonio for two seasons, puts it, "The ball doesn't stick." For better or worse, the ball often sticks in America. A few months ago, Pop was scouting an opponent. He won't say which one. On video, Pop saw an international player wide open for a shot, with a confused look on his face. That's because his point guard, an American, was dribbling in circles. "It has to be a really different experience for him," Pop says, laughing. " 'Where am I? Is this is a different game? Is it a different sport?' " Of course, Pop's coaching style, as prescient as it is curmudgeonly, isn't for everyone. He's demanding and ruthless; his playbook is pick-and-roll heavy, more structured and complicated than European ball but a blood relative.

The traits he scouts for -- players with "character," who've "gotten over themselves, who understand team play, who can cheer for a teammate," who "don't make excuses" -- hold true regardless of nationality. The NBA draft, more than the draft in any other sport, is based on potential. With only two rounds, GMs can't miss, and when Pop looks at American talent he sees many players who "have been coddled since eighth, ninth, 10th grade by various factions or groups of people. But the foreign kids don't live with that. So they don't feel entitled," he says, noting how many clubs work on fundamentals in two-a-day practices, each lasting up to three hours. "Now, you can't paint it with too wide of a brush, but in general, that's a fact." And so it's no surprise that Pop would rather teach unentitled foreign players to be selfless than try to teach entitled domestic players to suppress their egos. The international kids, he says, "have less. They appreciate things more.

And they're very coachable." Of course, it's much easier when his best player, Duncan, who was raised in the Virgin Islands and learned the game by playing point guard in pickup games on a rugged outdoor court, is best known for putting team first; when Parker, raised in France, is okay trading stats for wins; when Ginobili, raised in Argentina, is fine coming off the bench. And the Spurs have whiffed on imports ( Luis Scola ) and scored with Americans ( Kawhi Leonard ). Still, there's a different vibe in the Spurs facility, as if deplaning in a foreign airport. Argentine reporters stand next to American ones. In practice, Ginobili calls for a screen by saying, "Tienes que poner el bloqueo aca!" The diversity -- San Antonio's roster has players from seven countries and territories -- is a binding force. When Pop talks about his players, a coach who's best known for frowning one-word answers turns not only expansive and animated, waving his arms and laughing, but proud.

As he sits on a bench near the team's practice courts, watching Duncan shoot free throws on his day off, he smiles as he sees one of his foreign-born players and foreign-born front office guys hug in the hallway. "It's a family here," Pop says. "It's just geometric, and it creates a mixed culture that we've all enjoyed tremendously." Of course, Pop enjoys it most because they win. None of the Spurs rank high in points per game, the quintessential American stat. But not only were three Spurs among the top 12 players in Win Shares per 48 minutes for the 2012-13 season, they also join with Marc Gasol , the Memphis Grizzlies center from Spain, as the only non-Americans on the list. Parker, at .206, ranked fifth. Duncan's .191 was 12th. Ginobili, with a lifetime average of .211, would have easily qualified if he had been healthy. And ranking eighth was Splitter, the former international superstar who has had to train both his game and mind to relish the thankless tasks Pop demands of him.

42°50'59.29" N, 2°40'22.81" W Vitoria-Gasteiz, Spain, 2000 Splitter, from the city of Blumenau in southern Brazil, pictured at the South American Championship in July 2003. Frank Rivera/AP Photo How many NBA players have a LinkedIn profile? Splitter does. His profession: "Basketball Player at San Antonio Spurs (2010-present)". From 2000 to 2010, the Brazilian native's profile reads, he was a "jugador" at Baskonia, a Spanish club; he signed on at age 15, and there he won 24 awards, championships or gold medals in overseas tournaments, including Spanish League MVP and finals MVP. He was, as Ginobili says, "one of the best centers in the world." And should he ever need proof of that (or require emotional support after being posterized by LeBron James), four LinkedIn members have "endorsed" his "skills and expertise." Splitter was practically born into basketball.

His father, Cassio, played in college, and his sister, Michelle, was a dominating 6'6" player until she died of leukemia in 2009. Splitter first played when he was 7, and within a decade -- as a nimble center as fluent in pick-and-rolls as he is in Portuguese, Spanish, German and English -- American coaches recruited him to attend high school in the States. He was intrigued, until the coaches told him that his parents would have to pay for everything. So he stayed in Europe, and at 15 signed a 10-year contract to play with Baskonia. Buford first scouted him a year later, and two seasons after that, considered 18-year-old Splitter "the best player in the junior world tournament." Splitter's experience in the club system was not different from most, but it was still more structured and demanding than the traditional American hoops upbringing. He would attend school all day, and in the evening rotated between practice -- sometimes three hours of nothing but fundamentals -- and video, studying Shaq, Kevin Garnett and, most of all, Duncan, his idol, the reason he wore No. 21.

Splitter's coach, Dusko Ivanovic, was sort of a Spanish Popovich, minus the charm and the legacy. "He was tough," Splitter says. "Everything was about work and sacrifice and about the team. No excuses. So I grew up fast." The Spurs drafted Splitter in 2007, but due to contractual buyout issues -- a peril of relying on international players -- Splitter didn't join the team. Three years later, though, Splitter opted out of his contract and arrived in San Antonio at age 25 with the most local hype of any big man since Duncan. Splitter was amazed at how much Americans could do in drive-thrus (go to the bank, get coffee, eat). It was far from the only thing he would have to learn. He soon discovered that for as much as the Spurs' scheme seems European, with its emphasis on pick-and-rolls rather than isolation plays, they're still the Spurs, and it's still the NBA. With a new playbook, new country, new court dimensions and a new role, Splitter "had to learn to play again, basically," Duncan says.

A former competitive swimmer, Duncan didnt get serious about hoops until the ninth grade, after Hurricane Hugo destroyed his local pool. Four years later, he was playing for Wake Forest. Doug Pensinger/Getty Images If a benefit of drafting foreign players is that they arrive with more experience than one-and-done kids, a risk is that they're also too set in their ways. Splitter's shot -- a jerky thing capped with an odd finger flick in his follow-through -- had to be retooled by Spurs shooting coach Chip Engelland, renowned for his quiet magic. Limited by injuries and expectations and adjustments, Splitter started only eight games his first two years. Just as every AAU player isn't selfish, every foreign player isn't egoless, and Splitter now says that midway through his first year he was angry that he wasn't seeing more minutes. At one point, Pop told him: "Tiago, I know you're having a hard time. But your time will come. Just keep working. Keep coming to the gym willing to practice." Most of the Spurs' imports have heard a version of that conversation. Parker heard it. Ginobili heard it. The only one who hasn't is Duncan, the unspoken focal point.

It's a conversation that Pop doesn't like to have twice, the moment when the characteristics that he scouts for either prove true or don't. And if they don't, the Spurs will ruthlessly cut their losses and move on, as they did with Hedo Turkoglu , George Hill and Stephen Jackson. Splitter, though, worked after practice on his shooting, worked during the lockout with Duncan, and his free throw percentage rose from 54.3 percent as a rookie to 73 percent this season, when he led the team in games played with 81. His job is to execute the invisible stuff: set screens, bang under the boards, find the open man, alter shots. And with seconds left in regulation of Game 3 in the Western Conference finals against the Grizzlies, score tied, Splitter forced guard Mike Conley to put up a shot so high and wild off the glass that it didn't touch the rim. That didn't show up on the stat sheet, but it helped the Spurs to win in overtime. "He realizes that I might call his number zero times, and he's okay with that," Pop says.

"He can do it because of the character he has, because of the way he grew up, because his method of operation is to be a coachable, hard-working individual who wants to help his team win. That's how he's built. That's why we love him." And that's why the Spurs consider Splitter so flexible as to be invaluable. A restricted free agent this summer whom Buford expects to "go forward with for a long time," he averaged 10.3 points this season by exploiting scraps and leftovers, a "subterfuge type of offense," as Pop says. Break down Hoopdata's shot locations tracker by the two smartest types of looks -- close range and threes -- and you find that Splitter was the fifth-most-efficient regular center in the league, at 73.1 percent of his attempts, ahead of Dwight Howard , Chris Bosh and Kevin Garnett. It's a very Spurs stat. "I'm not going to win games shooting outside," Splitter says. Sometimes, though, he seems to pine to break out of his role. After practice, Splitter and the guards often compete to see who can drain more threes.

In the first round against the Lakers, Pop subbed Matt Bonner for Splitter, who needed a breather after his smothering defense had erased Howard. Bonner is the rare big man capable of draining shots from beyond the arc. After Bonner hit one, Pop walked down the bench and hunched over Splitter. "Don't shoot threes," Pop said. Splitter looked confused. Then Pop smiled. 40°40'51.09" N, 73°47'30.88" W South Jamaica, N.Y., 2013 Back in Queens, as the Jayhawks break out to a 23-10 lead, the basketball alternates between beautiful and sloppy. One college coach estimates that a handful of players on the court could end up playing for Division I schools. Not surprising, considering that few AAU circuits produce so many stars. Kobe was once a Playa, and Spurs forward Danny Green , who has proved to be both the norm and the exception to Pop's scouting rule, played for a rival New York AAU team.

Sports are in the blood of Diaw, the son of a French womens basketball star and a Senegalese high jumper. Vincent Van Doornick/Photo & Co./Corbis As a free agent in 2010, Green was signed by the Spurs and released a week later after showing little desire to conform to their team-first style. But shortly after he was cut, Green left Popovich a voice mail begging for another chance, offering to execute any role, no matter how small. Pop re-signed Green in March of that season, and now he's not only "grown within the system," as Green recently told ESPN.com, but often featured: He hit six of nine shots in San Antonio's Game 1 victory over the Grizzlies in the Western Conference finals. Still, playing on the same courts as NBA legends can produce the burden of unrealistic expectations. One of the biggest headaches for college coaches is that many players have been told since a young age that they possess NBA talent. "Every player expects to be in the league," says one college coach.

"And worse, every kid's parent expects them to be in the NBA." Only marquee names -- Coack K, Bill Self -- have the juice and the job stability to convince McDonald's All Americans of the glory in passing and defense. Most coaches are forced by their lack of security, and the one-and-done rule, to compromise their playbooks, if not their ethics, to land top talent. And some of those players aren't raised to handle criticism, which is as amplified on the biggest stage as it is unalterable. "My belief," Pop says, "is that people am who they am." Ultimately, the Playaz rally. As New Jersey draws closer, the Jayhawks, with no shot clock, turn to a four-corners offense. (Hey, it's passing.) Each time a Playa is at the free throw line, the Jayhawks coach shouts "Touch the shooter!" the instant he releases -- adding classlessness onto slop. But the Playaz's comeback falls short, 72-66. After the game, the guys shake hands, then they're off to their next tournament. It's only one game, only two teams, with players that, who knows, might reach the NBA someday. Just not San Antonio.

37°45'0.58" N, 122°12'10.62" W Oracle Arena, Oakland, Calif. Game 6, Western Conference semifinals, Spurs vs. Warriors, 2013 Splitter looks tired. He jogs down the floor after playing defense and stops at the top of the free throw line. It's the fourth quarter. His hands are on his knees; he will play more minutes in this game than any other of the series. Spurs guard Cory Joseph , from the right side of the three-point line, passes to Ginobili. Splitter sets an off-ball screen for Joseph. Then Splitter rolls off that screen to set another, for Ginobili, who dribbles right, stops and cuts left. Splitter pivots and sets him another pick, his body absorbing blows at every turn, jerking back and forth as if standing on a turbulent plane. Ginobili then passes to Boris Diaw , a French big man. Splitter drifts toward the basket, ready to rebound. But Diaw, like a shortstop, catches and fires to Splitter in one fluid motion.

Splitter finishes with a righthanded layup, and on the way up the court, he raises his arm to Diaw, a toast from one foreigner to another, and returns to his thankless banging. Follow The Mag on Twitter ( @ESPNmag ) and like us on Facebook . San Antonio Spurs | American basketball team | Britannica.com American basketball team San Antonio San Antonio Spurs, American professional basketball team established in 1967 that is based in San Antonio , Texas . The Spurs won five National Basketball Association (NBA) championships (1999, 2003, 2005, 2007, and 2014) during one of the most dominant stretches in NBA history. Tim Duncan, 2006. Stephen Dunn/Getty Images The team started out as the Dallas Chaparrals in the American Basketball Association (ABA). The Chaparrals were moderately successful, but the team was sold to a group of San Antonio businessmen in 1973, relocated, and renamed the Spurs.

George (“the Iceman”) Gervin —a future Hall of Famer who joined the franchise midway through the 1973–74 season—was the star of the early San Antonio teams, a high-scoring shooting guard who would help establish the Spurs as a consistent contender throughout the 1970s and 1980s. The Spurs joined the NBA when the league agreed to absorb the four most successful ABA franchises in 1976 after the younger league began to struggle financially. Defying predictions of mediocrity, the team immediately posted winning records and stood up to the NBA’s best teams. Capturing five division titles in their first seven seasons of NBA play, the Spurs continually made the play-offs but could not surmount the championship hurdle. After Gervin was traded from the team in 1985, the Spurs experienced a four-year string of losing seasons. The slump ended with the addition of superstar centre David Robinson in 1989.

Robinson’s presence was the catalyst for a 35-win improvement in the 1989–90 season for the Spurs, and the team qualified for the postseason in each of his first seven years in San Antonio, but he could not carry the team past the conference finals on his own. Fortune shone on the Spurs in 1997 when, after an injury-plagued 20–62 season, the Spurs won the NBA draft lottery, which allowed them to choose forward Tim Duncan with the first overall selection of that year’s draft. Duncan teamed with a healthy Robinson to lead the Spurs to a 36-win improvement in the 1997–98 season, and the duo, nicknamed the “Twin Towers,” followed that remarkable year by guiding the team to the 1999 NBA championship. In 2003, which was Robinson’s last season with the team, they won another title and thus allowed him to end an illustrious career on top. Tony Parker of the San Antonio Spurs driving to the basket during game four of the 2007 NBA finals.

Jeff Haynes—AFP/Getty Images Golden State Warriors The Spurs remained dominant after Robinson’s retirement, combining veterans and promising young talent with the defensive philosophy of coach Gregg Popovich . Duncan was joined by rising stars Manu Ginobili and Tony Parker (who both played complementary roles in the Spurs’ 2003 title) during championship runs in 2005 and 2007. In 2010–11 the Spurs tied an all-time NBA mark by recording their 12th consecutive season with at least 50 victories, but they were met with disappointment in the following postseason as they became just the second top-seeded NBA team to be upset by an eighth-seeded (lowest-seeded) team in an opening seven-game play-off series when they were eliminated by the Memphis Grizzlies . The Spurs established a new NBA record by reaching 50 wins over the next two campaigns, each of which saw the team advance to the conference finals, with San Antonio defeating the Grizzlies in that round to reach the NBA finals in 2012–13, where the Spurs lost a thrilling seven-game series to the Miami Heat .

The team won a league-high 62 games the following season and, in the ensuing play-offs, won its way into a rematch with the Heat in the NBA finals. There the Spurs put on one of the most effective and prolific scoring displays in finals history, setting numerous finals shooting records en route to winning the franchise’s fifth title, in a five-game series. Where do the San Antonio Spurs Play Where do the San Antonio Spurs Play 15 Mar, 2013 where do 0 San Antonio Spurs are a professional basketball team that compete in the Southwest Division of the Western Conference in the National Basketball Association (NBA). The team was founded in 1967 as the Dallas Chaparrals as a part of the American basketball Association (ABA). The team was relocated to San Antonio in 1973 and was renamed the Spurs. In 1976 the team became a part of the NBA after the ABA-NBA merger. The team has been quite successful since the merger with a number of division titles and 4 NBA Championships, which makes them the fourth most successful franchise in the history of the league. Let’s find out where the Spurs play their home games. Where do the San Antonio Spurs play?

In 2002 the Spurs moved into AT&T Center, originally called SBC Center, which is an indoor arena capable of seating about 18,500 for basketball games. The arena was proposed in the late 1990’s after the management and fans were unhappy with the current arrangement at the Alamodome, which was built for the Spurs just a few years earlier. The AT&T Center was built in 2 years at a cost of $186 million. It is used for many other events including: ice hockey, concerts, religious gatherings, conferences and much more. Prior to the Alamodome the Spurs played at HemisFair Arena. While in Texas the franchise used four stadiums: the State Fair Coliseum, Moody Coliseum, Tarrant County Coliseum and Lubbock Municipal Coliseum. Did you know? Even though the Spurs were the instigators of the push for the construction of the $186 million Alamodome the team spent less than 10 years playing there. Even though it was created for the Spurs, it was actually designed as a football stadium in the hope that the city could attract a professional football team.

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Our Sales and our Service team are available 7 days a week at 1-800-880-8886. 2017 Spurs Season Preview The San Antonio Spurs finished their 2015-2016 season with a franchise record of 67 wins and 15 losses, which earned them the number one title in the Southwest Division. The Spurs made it to the 2015 Conference Semifinals where the Oklahoma City Thunder defeated them 2-4. As San Antonio enters the 2016 season, the backbone of the team Tim Duncan has retired, but the Spurs have been preparing for this transition building the team with strong players. Returning to the Spurs will be veteran players, Manu Ginobili and Tony Parker who have always been a solid ground during games and mentors for the younger players. The Spurs are looking good in 2016 with star players, Kawhi Leonard and LaMarcus Aldridge returning. Leonard has proven to be the best defensive player in the league as well as improving his offense skills last season and coming into this season.

Combine that talent with Aldridge’s talent in the post and mid-range game, the duo will be a force on the court for the Spurs. Expect the stability and guidance of San Antonio Spurs’ head coach Greg Popovich to take the team into another great season and a contender for another title. The Spurs, if healthy, could be one of the most dangerous teams in the 2016-2017 NBA season. Come to TicketCity for the some of the best deals on home or away San Antonio Spurs’ tickets! San Antonio Spurs Basketball at AT&T Center Address: 1 AT&T Center Pkwy, San Antonio, Texas, 78219 The Spurs play their home games at the AT&T Center , located in San Antonio, Texas. When filled to capacity, the AT&T Center holds more than 18,000 screaming fans. While at the game, stop by the AT&T Center Experience Headquarters, where you can search the web for NBA news, play video games and take your picture with a Spurs backdrop. We suggest getting a picture with the four NBA Finals trophies as well. The San Antonio Spurs home bench is on the AT&T Center court side in front of section 6.

ATT Center parking information is covered in our Spurs event guide. AT&T Center Seating Chart San Antonio Spurs Rivals Phoenix Suns , Dallas Mavericks , Los Angeles Lakers , Houston Rockets , Oklahoma City Thunder Spurs vs. Suns With over 45 playoff games between the two teams, this rivalry has quickly become one of the better matchups in the NBA. Evident by the many playoff meetings, the stakes are always at the highest when these two teams meet. With stars such as David Robinson, Tim Duncan, Dan Majerle and Kevin Johnson gracing the court, it is only natural for this to become of the better rivalries in the NBA. Spurs vs. Mavericks These two teams were consistently fighting for supremacy in the Western Conference during the 2000s which made this matchup one of the better rivalries in the NBA. The high-profile owner and up-tempo offense of the Mavericks against the fundamentally sound and laid back approach of the Spurs gave this game the contrast of differences that fans loved. With both teams winning a championship during this span, the rivalry only increased and will continue to get better in the years to come. Spurs vs.

Lakers Two of the more successful franchises in NBA history, this matchup has become a staple in the NBA. Both organizations have won multiple championships and have met seven times in the playoffs in the last 15 seasons. Legends to the game of basketball such as Tim Duncan, David Robinson, Kobe Bryant, and Shaquille O'Neal have played in this intense rivalry that ranks as one of the league's best. Spurs vs. Rockets When mentioning the most successful franchises in the league, the Spurs will always be near the top of the list. With 3+ NBA titles and over 4 conference championships, the Spurs have accomplished more than most. The Spurs have an eye-popping 18+ division titles and will only add to that number. Spurs vs. Thunder The rivalry between the San Antonio Spurs and the Oklahoma City Thunder has been come to be known as the Southwest Standoff. With the old Western Conference elite, the Spurs, finding a new competition in the new Western Conference elite Thunder, seeing Durant and Duncan on the court together is a true spectacle.

Spurs in the NBA Finals, Western Conference Championships and NBA Playoffs Known as the "I-10 Rivalry" because San Antonio and Houston are located on Interstate 10, this matchup is all about bragging rights in the state of Texas. These two teams have met over 185 times during the regular season and another 15+ times in the playoffs. The two teams first met in 1976 and have made this matchup one of better rivalries in the NBA and will only continue to add to that in the years to come. San Antonio Spurs Event Guide Back to Top What time do gates open prior to tipoff at a Spurs game? Gates open 1 hour and 15 minutes before tipoff for the general public. San Antonio is crazy about their Spurs and is known for having some of the best crowds in the NBA. We recommend getting to the game early. How can I buy cheap San Antonio Spurs tickets? TicketCity offers a big selection of San Antonio Spurs tickets which include some of the lowest priced seats on the market. Spurs tickets fluctuate based on demand and opponent.

Marquee Western Conference opponents, like the Los Angeles Lakers, Oklahoma City Thunder, Houston Rockets and Dallas Mavericks can drive up home game prices. While cheap tickets are more plentiful for non-conference opponents. Those early season games may offer best opportunity to purchase Spurs tickets near face value. Where are good places to eat before a Spurs game? San Antonio is known for having some of the best Tex-Mex anywhere. Of the dozens of great places in the downtown area we recommend Rosario's, La Fonda on Main, and Acenar. If you are looking for a truly unique environment, check out Josephine Street Café. It is one of the most iconic places in San Antonio, and they often offer a bus ride to and from Spurs games. Other good places are Sip Espresso and Sandwich Bar, and The Friendly Spot Ice House (for over 21 Spurs fans). Where is the best place to park at AT&T Center? Parking at AT&T Center is actually fairly easy compared to other arenas. There are 7 lots surrounding the arena with the more expensive lots on the south side and cheaper to the north.

Pricing ranges from $8 to $20 and there is typically enough room in these lots for everyone, though purchasing a parking pass lets your park up close and guarantees you a spot. Can I buy San Antonio Spurs season tickets? San Antonio season tickets are available to buy until tipoff of their home opener. Check our listings above or call us if you would like to purchase Spurs season tickets. Let us know if you want a particular section at the AT&T Center. Does my child need a ticket to go to the game? Any child over 24 months needs a ticket to enter AT&T Center, if your child is under 2 years old we recommend bringing proof of his/her age to expedite the process and ensure they are allowed to enter. Where can I find the 2016-2017 San Antonio Spurs schedule? The Spurs 2016-2017 schedule is listed as soon as it is announced by the NBA. The Spurs play in the Southwest Division of the Western Conference, which means games against the Houston Rockets, Dallas Mavericks, Memphis Grizzlies and New Orleans Pelicans. Game times are announced by the NBA as soon as the TV schedule is set.

San Antonio's home opener is typically one of the most popular games. If you are looking for Spurs news or scores, then visit our partners at CBS Sports. They are also a good source for the official San Antonio Spurs team roster. Cómo se compran entradas a San Antonio Spurs? TicketCity vende entradas a los partidos de basketbol del San Antonio Spurs al AT&T Center en San Antonio, Tejas. Somos una empresa revendedora de entradas / boletos que ha existido por más de 20 años. Visítanos en el web o llámanos para comprar entradas de los spurs. Estamos para servirle en inglés y español con Espuelas. Para Comprar Boletos San Antonio Spurs Preview History Back to Top 2015 San Antonio Spurs Season Preview After reaching back to back NBA Finals, the San Antonio Spurs title defense fell short last season, losing a thrilling 7 game series to the Los Angeles Clippers in the first round. San Antonio enters what could be the last season of future hall of famer Tim Duncan’s career, with maybe its most talented roster yet.

The Spurs were able to attract superstar forward LaMarcus Aldridge to join what looks to be the best front court in the NBA. Aldridge will team up with Tim Duncan and Kawhi Leonard in what should be an unstoppable 3 headed monster. San Antonio was also able to ad reserve forward David West, who is yet another veteran presence who has experience winning in the playoffs. Despite the new talent, don’t expect the 2015-16 San Antonio Spurs team to come into the season with a different strategy. The Spurs will rely on team first basketball, and point guard Tony Parkers ability to generate points with his dribble penetration. Kawhi Leonard has evolved into one of the best defenders in the league, and has the ability to shut down just about any player in the NBA. Look for Gregg Popovich to keep his aging stars rested, sacrificing minutes in the regular season, for post season freshness. The San Antonio Spurs are contenders in a very packed Western Conference, and may be the favorites to win another NBA Finals in 2015-16. 2014 San Antonio Spurs Season Preview The 2013-14 NBA season could not have gone better for the San Antonio Spurs.

The Spurs finished with the regular season with 62 wins, and the number 1 overall seed in the NBA Western Conference. San Antonio then went on to win the Western Conference, and dominate the Miami Heat in a rematch of the 2013 NBA Finals. The 2014 NBA championship was the 5th championship in the history of the San Antonio Spurs. With wire to wire dominating play by the San Antonio Spurs last season, the offseason was one of maintaining the roster that was already in San Antonio. The only key addition to the team is highly talented rookie Kyle Anderson, who will look to mentor under Tim Duncan and Kawhi Leonard. For the first time in many summers, Manu Ginobili did not participate in international play and should come into the 2014-15 NBA season as rested and fresh as he has been in some time. Tim Duncan, Danny Green, Tony Parker, and Tiago Splitter all return and the expectations could not be higher for the San Antonio Spurs. Expect Kawhi Leonard to take over more of a leadership role on the court and for the San Antonio Spurs to once again be a favorite to win the NBA Championship come playoff time.

2013 San Antonio Spurs Season Preview The Spurs came oh-so-close to a 5th NBA Championship, but a Ray Allen fadeaway three-pointer gave the Heat new life and led to a Game 7 victory for Miami. The Spurs had 58 wins in the regular season, and are thinking about 60+ this season with the possibility of a full-on breakout year from Kawhi Leonard. The 6’7 small forward can be the fourth cog in the Duncan, Parker, Ginobili machine as they go for it all again in the 2013-14 Season.San Antonio will tip-off the season at the Staples Center against the Lakers on Nov. 1, before finishing a short West Coast trip in Portland and Denver. The first home game of the season will be Nov. 6 against the Phoenix Suns. Other key home games will be vs. Houston on Nov. 30, vs. Oklahoma City on Dec. 21, and vs. Miami on March 6 in an NBA Finals rematch. 2012 San Antonio Spurs Season Preview The San Antonio Spurs are at the same time one of the most formidable teams in the NBA, and oldest.

However, that doesn’t really matter when you’re dealing with one of the strongest cores in the NBA between future Hall of Famer Tim Duncan and superstars Tony Parker and Manu Ginobli. That is the group that, with hobbled knees, captured the best record in the Western Conference in 2010-11. However there’s a bit of a youth movement afoot in the land of the Alamo, as forwards Tiago Splitter and DeJuan Blair, and guard George Hill use those fill-in minutes to gain experience for when the time comes and it’s them starting in the Alamodome. While there’s no timetable set for that, it’s exciting to watch one of the most compelling mixes of fastbreak and half court offenses the NBA has to offer. 2011 San Antonio Spurs Season Preview The San Antonio Spurs may be one of the oldest teams in the NBA, but they still have a solid core of talented players. Despite a mediocre season, the Spurs still managed to sneak into the playoffs in the competitive Western Conference, and while they may have been replaced by several upstart young teams as a perennial favorite, they can still make a run.

San Antonio has been led by Tim Duncan, Tony Parker and Manu Ginobili for much of the last decade, and that is one again the case. The talented triumvirate can still have an impact if they manage to stay healthy, as Duncan averaged a double-double last year. One question mark may be Richard Jefferson, who is coming off a sub-par season with the Spurs. While his production is uncertain, if he can be the dangerous scoring threat he once was, the Spurs will be successful. While their foundation is firmly routed with experienced players, the Spurs also have a slue of up-and-comers ready to step up. Second-year man DeJuan Blair proved he could be a reliable scorer and defender, and George Hill established himself as a solid point guard. 2010 San Antonio Spurs Season Preview The San Antonio Spurs are one of the top teams in the NBA heading into the 2009-2010. The Spurs have reloaded after their first round playoff exit by adding Richard Jefferson and DeJuan Blair. Jefferson will be join an already strong nucleus that includes Tim Duncan, Tony Parker and Manu Ginobili. Those 4 talented players, along with a strong supporting cast, should take the Spurs deep into the playoffs.

Whether San Antonio can reach the NBA Finals this year will likely depend a lot on keeping players healthy. If the Spurs stay healthy then fans in San Antonio could watch Head Coach Gregg Popovich and GM R.C. Buford put another NBA Championship banner up at the AT&T Center. 2009 San Antonio Spurs Season Preview The San Antonio Spurs are one of the best teams in the entire NBA. When you purchase San Antonio Spurs tickets, you'll watch an all-star line up at its best that features Tim Duncan, Manu Ginobili, Tony Parker, Michael Finley, Robert Horry and more. You'll also see a huge crowd of passionate San Antonio Spurs fans filling the AT&T Center and cheering for the NBA Champions the second the game starts. Attend a San Antonio Spurs game with its loyal fans at the AT&T Center! San Antonio Spurs News San Antonio Spurs Basketball - Spurs News, Scores, Stats, Rumors & More - ESPN Commissioner Adam Silver said fans can expect the NBA to play more contests in Mexico and that the league also is exploring the possibility of adding a franchise in Mexico City.

ESPN Stats and Information Spurs forward Kawhi Leonard entered tonight's game with 30 or more points in his last two games, shooting at least 60 percent from the field in each outing. The last Spurs player to do that in three games in succession was Tim Duncan early in 2004. In the first quarter, Leonard had two points on 1-of-2 shooting. share Jugadores a seguir: Suns vs. Spurs share El segundo partido de temporada regular de la NBA está por disputarse y aunque se vislumbra un duelo disparejo, estos jugadores seguramente se llevarán las palmas. Leer share México verá a un favorito al título de la NBA share Los San Antonio Spurs se presentan este sábado en la Arena Ciudad de México ante los Phoenix Suns. Leer share San Antonio Spurs quiere saldar deuda con fans mexicanos share San Antonio no pudo jugar el 4 de diciembre de 2013 en México debido a un imponderable en la Arena Ciudad de México y ahora buscan saldar esa deuda. Leer share Michael C. Wright ESPN Staff Writer Here's part of the game program complete with rules to help you learn the game.

share play0:42 Michael C. Wright ESPN Staff Writer Spurs coach Gregg Popovich on whether the NBA can help relations between the U.S. and Mexico. share

Question: In which American city do the Spurs play basketball?
Answer: SAN ANTONIO